>>Yeah, that would be very nice. I'm manually editing plain text into
>>HTML, and dealing with hundreds of unquoted URLs set into sentences
>>and terminated with periods, commas, dashes, unmatched closing parens,
>>and worse.

>There was an article on Codding Horror not long ago discussing this.
>What do you do if a URL ends in an end-parenthesis? It could be part
>of the url or not! Wikipedia is especially bad about this.

Not to sound flip about it, but there's only so much you can do to guard
against retardery.  If someone *insists* on including, bad enough
spaces, but *punctuation* into filenames and complete urls, then *he's*
the one with the problem.  Garbage in, garbage out.  If the link gets
screwed up so that it's broken (ie, can't click-through it), then too
bad.

I always try to separate urls with at least a space, eg, at the end of a
sentence, so there's no confusion whether/not that trailing dot belongs.

Me personally, I wouldn't worry about trying to contort a 'vim' script
to deal with crap like that.

But *publishers* (like wiki) who merge urls with other surrounding
text/punctuation?  That's unforgiveable.  Someone should edit the
page/entry itself to fix it.

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